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		<title>IRS Disbars CPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why your CPA keeps digging for answers until he understands a transaction or nitpicks you for the right details of a deduction? The IRS released IR-2010-82 on July 6, 2010, announcing the disbarment of a CPA. Here&#8217;s the announcement from the IRS website:
IR-2010-82, July 6, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Office of Professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Asking for QuickBooks Files</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not good news. (Disclaimer: At this point, this is all third party information. While I believe the sources are accurate, there has been no announcement from the IRS.)  It appears that the IRS has started requesting electronic QuickBooks files in examinations of entities that use QuickBooks and supposedly the IRS will make an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GA Dept of Revenue Electronic Systems Operational</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Georgia Department of Revenue electronic payments system is operational again after a June 7 flood took them offline. This flood was apparently caused by an overheated appliance setting off a sprinkler head.  This begs the questions why are they using water sprinklers in a computer room and hasn&#8217;t anyone in the department of revenue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Dept of Revenue Flood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to computer equipment that overheated on Sunday afternoon which activated a sprinkler system and resulted in flooding on four lower floors, the Department of Revenue headquarters building experienced a computer system outage which disabled online systems and halted ground floor customer service operation on Monday.
Following is the status of certain DOR online tax systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Audit Red Flags</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CBS Money Watch, here&#8217;s some things not to do on your tax returns unless you can support them.  The IRS has a top secret formula for choosing returns for audit.  And remember less than 1% of returns are audited, but that&#8217;s 3% of returns with incomes over $200,000.   New tax law changes aren&#8217;t in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States Looking for Non-Resident Income</title>
		<link>http://www.jimbeddow.com/tax_news/2010/think-you-dont-have-to-file-in-other-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimbeddow.com/tax_news/2010/think-you-dont-have-to-file-in-other-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve written before, the states are becoming more and more aggressive about collecting taxes from non-residents as the economy has declined. Tax collections in many states are extremely low so states like California (of course) and Connecticut are exchanging information with the Internal Revenue Service in order to identify where money was earned.  Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hackers Target Small Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal is reporting a huge increase in hacker attacks on small business bank accounts. The hackers are using &#8220;spear phishing&#8221; emails to small business employees that have bank account access, but this is just one common method. These emails gather usernames and passwords through a fictitious website or a malware keylogger that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Employment Audits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning in February, 2010, the IRS will begin a new round of audits in its National Research Program. These will be detailed examinations designed to determine the extent businesses comply with employment tax rules. The IRS uses the results to set statistical metrics used to make choosing returns to audit more efficient.  Supposedly the IRS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips to Pick a Tax Preparer</title>
		<link>http://www.jimbeddow.com/tax_news/2010/tips-to-pick-a-tax-preparer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimbeddow.com/tax_news/2010/tips-to-pick-a-tax-preparer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has published their tips to choosing a tax preparer:
1. Check the person’s qualifications Ask if the preparer is affiliated with a professional organization that provides its members with continuing education and resources and holds them to a code of ethics.
2. Check on the preparer’s history Check to see if the preparer has any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Most Litigated Tax Issues</title>
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		<comments>http://www.jimbeddow.com/tax_news/2010/10-most-litigated-tax-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nina Olson, IRS Taxpayer Advocate, is required to report to Congress annually and one of the things she has to report is the 10 most litigated tax issues. Here&#8217;s this years list:

Collection Due Process hearings (§§ 6320, 6330)
Summons enforcement (§§ 7602(a), 7604(a), 7609(a))
Trade or business expenses (§ 162(a) and related Code sections)- This covers Sole Proprietors&#8217; Schedule C, [...]]]></description>
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